Review: The Square
The Square, the latest film from Force Majeure director Ruben Östlund, reveals its entire thesis in its opening scenes. Anne, an art journalist ...
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NYFF Review: Zama
Zama is a novelistic film, but not because it’s an adaptation of a 1956 Argentinian novel by Antonio di Benedetto. Watching Zama creates a ...
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Review: Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird reminded me of my own experiences growing up. When a coming-of-age movie works, I’m bound to say that, and ...
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Review: Last Flag Flying
Richard Linklater’s movies tend to work best when they feel like hanging out. There’s a breeziness to the language as people walk, talk, ...
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Trailer: Joachim Trier’s Thelma adds a Carrie-like edge to a college sexual awakening
I’m not a fan of the term “post-horror”, which was coined by Guardian writer Steve Rose. The prefix is too loaded, suggesting that ...
Watch the first trailer for Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age directorial debut
I loved Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha, and it was mostly because of Greta Gerwig. She played such a charming, endearing screw-up struggling to ...
NYFF 2017: Our Most Anticipated Movies of the 55th New York Film Festival
The 55th New York Film Festival kicks off tonight with the world premiere of Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying. Our first reviews of ...
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Trailer: Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying is an old man road trip en route to a funeral
Richard Linklater is best known for peripatetic indies like the Before trilogy, Slacker, and Boyhood, but his filmography is dotted with uncharacteristic entries, ...
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Review: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
I can say this about Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: Ang Lee and his cast have their hearts in the right place. Adapted ...
54th New York Film Festival starts Friday, runs September 30-October 16
The 54th New York Film Festival kicks off this Friday, September 30th and runs until Sunday, October 16th. One of the biggest end-of-year ...
Review: My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea
There are so many possibilities in My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, the directorial debut of indie comics artist Dash Shaw. ...
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Review: The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
The B-Side is an atypical Errol Morris documentary. He doesn’t use the Interrotron at all, his tool that allows interviewees to stare directly ...